[Boost-users] positional arguments in boost::program_options

Hi, I'm writing a program which will run other programs (think xargs) and I have the following question. If I am reading the docs right, I get positional arguments by doing something like 1) Make a "normal" argument --arg 2) Tell it that positional arguments map to --arg However, if I do this, that means that if someone runs my_wrapper target_program --arg a then the --arg "disappears" because boost::po treats it as an actual option and not a positional argument. I can (mostly) get around this by naming all the fake positional arguments something like --ZZZZarg and assuming no one will ever want to pass that to another program, but it's a bit unsatisfactory conceptually. Is there a better way? Evan